Non-practice

Căști cu zonă tactilă

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Jan Jespersen - Listening

Dețin niște căști Sony cu zonă tactilă, am avut înainte niște căști cu butoane fizice pentru înainte/înapoi și nu înțeleg de ce ar exista pe piață căști cu zonă tactilă pentru next/previous.

Ascult la căști și când vreau să schimb melodia să trebuiască să fac swipe într-un anumit fel mi se pare o soluție nefericită.

E criteriu de selecție ale căștilor pentru căștile viitoare – buton fizic pentru melodia următoare, aproape nimic altceva nu e atât de important.

Problema principală? La căștile cu zonă tactilă nu ai feedback – nu ești 100% sigur că ai făcut gestul potrivit, sunt melodii care încep cu o zonă cu volum minim, și durează până ai înțeles dacă ai dat Next Song sau Play/Pause.

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How feedback used to be given

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Ashok Boghani - Abnormal growth

When I was younger, in the people around me, people tended to be more direct and give direct feedback.

As time passed, fewer and fewer people give honest feedback.

It’s a much softer way of living.

On the other hand:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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I’m doing my part

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Lee Jaffe - DSC_7426 Anna's Hummingbird

One day, a gigantic fire ravages a rainforest.

Distraught, every animal turns and flees from their burning home. Passive spectators walking past the edge of the forest offer their condolences, but nothing more than a passing glance or hollow words of sympathy. After all, it’s not their home being burned.

As the sky turns grey with ash and searing flames tear through the land, one small hummingbird flits to a nearby river that is yet to be touched by the destruction. Relentlessly, the bird flies back and forth from the river to the fire, filling its beak with a tiny drop of water to toss on the leaves of a burning tree.

Noticing the tiny hummingbird’s efforts, a toucan challenges him:

“You’re crazy, Hummingbird! You’ll never be able to put out the fire on your own! Why even bother when it’s so much bigger than you?”

The hummingbird pauses.

“I know”, replies the hummingbird. “But I am doing my part.”

Project Aid & Rescue.

It’s easier to focus on other’s part. To notice their mistakes, errors, and things that are not working out for them.

But it’s much better to do your own part, to focus on yourself to fix your own errors.

You are in control of your life, you can fix your mistakes easily.

Others’ errors? Not so much.

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I never make mistakes

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ms. Tibbetts - error

I recently went to a Vodafone store.

I went around lunch, and only one person was handling clients.

A line formed with quite a few persons.

At some point, a new person came to handle clients.

The last person on the old queue wanted to be the first on the new one.

She was told she should wait in line.

And now the point—she started telling others that there should be more queues, there was not enough staff, etc.

Was she right? Of course, it was a real issue. But it was not on topic.

The real topic was that she wanted to go in front of all the people.

When she started to speak about the secondary issue, she likely refused to admit that there was an issue.

It’s very hard to correct something if you don’t first admit there’s something wrong.

It’s not a pleasant solution – you must admit that you’ve made a mistake, apologize, and start from there.

The lady chose an excellent solution, but the issue will likely be there in the future.

The easy path leads to her happiness only.

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Missed opportunities

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Seven White Closed Doors

Romania is growing; we are getting some highways, and the general economic level is rising.

The thing is – we could have grown faster (see the Poland „shock therapy”), we could have had more highways, etc.

It’s nice that we are growing, but we don’t know how we could have grown further.

When we evaluate a situation, we don’t know the full consequences.

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Ce exerciții fizice fac eu?

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Neal Fowler - Work that body.

Cred că în caietul apărut ulterior după: Revoluția glucozei / Glucose Revolution de Jessie Inchauspe am citit că e bine să faci mișcare după masă dacă vrei să dai burta jos.

Așa că fac vreo 10-15 minute de mișcare destul de intensă după masă (exerciții care folosesc masa corpului meu, gantere, bandă elastică, dar și ceva bicicletă magnetică).

În rest, îmi propun să fac fragmentar în timpul zilei, adică dacă mă ridic de la calculator periodic să fac și câteva exerciții în acea pauză.

Îmi place să aleg să merg pe jos uneori, în fața altor metode de deplasare.

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Why read books? Why go to theatrical plays? Why attend conferences?

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Why read books? Why go to theatrical plays? Why attend conferences? – these questions might be silly, but I think there’s a common answer to all of them.

The answer? Even if you can read a book summary, read at your own pace (perhaps faster) a theatrical play, and not attend a long conference, if you do things like these, you might notice things tend to stick.

It’s one thing to quickly go through an article or to have it explained in detail at a conference.

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Energy and fun

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The Phantom of The Opera

I’ve been to some concerts in my life.

I think there are two kinds of concerts:

  • When the artist is energetic, fun, and especially bold.
  • When the artist is just there to do their job.

Even when singing opera, you can be bold and make a show.

But I’ve been disappointed a few times by good voices and little to no energy.

It’s not enough to sing nicely; you need to do extra.

I even remember singers I didn’t especially like before, but I enjoyed their energy.

And, of course, being bold (even a bit over the board) helps.

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